Mark Barkawitz has earned local and national awards for his fiction, poetry, essay, and screenwriting. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, literary journals & anthologies, ‘zines, and on dozens of websites. He has IMDb feature film credits as screenwriter, actor, & associate producer (Mark Bark) for “Turn of the Blade” (NorthStar Ent.) and supporting actor in “The Killing Time” (New World Pictures).He’s taught creative writing classes, coached a championship track team of student-athletes, and ran the L.A. Marathon.He lives with his wife and has two kids in Pasadena, CA. Mark’s new book, The DOG with the OPPOSABLE THUMB, is available at Amazon in print and Kindle format, and at Barnes & Noble in Nook format. He won the international 2012 Fiction Writing Contest at www.thewriteplaceatthewritetime.org for his short story, “Bicycles.”